Elisabeth LaMotte

Dying for Sex; Reclaiming Life and Desire in the Face of Death

By Elisabeth LaMotte / May 23, 2025

It’s not every day that a series dares to explore female sexuality with honesty—and even less often does it do so in tandem with the realities of terminal illness. Hulu’s Dying for Sex manages both, telling a bold yet intimate story that invites us to think differently about what it means to be alive. Based…

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What is the Ostrich Effect?

By Elisabeth LaMotte / April 18, 2025

This month I spoke with Huffington Post about the “Ostrich Effect” and the link will lead you to the article; however my full answer is below: These days, more therapists and clients are referencing the ostrich effect — the tendency to metaphorically bury one’s head in the sand to avoid confronting negative or distressing information.…

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What’s the current state of women’s mental health?

By Elisabeth LaMotte / March 11, 2025

Saturday was International Women’s Day and March is Women’s History Month. I was glad for the change to discuss the state of women’s mental health on Fox Nashville. The monologue at the end of the barbie movie is quite powerful a fitting summary as we unpack the question of the current state of women’s mental…

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Anora

By Elisabeth LaMotte / March 7, 2025

The results are in: Mikey Madison has officially taken home the Oscar for Best Actress, capping off an incredible awards season where she also won the Independent Spirit Award and the BAFTA. In a historic night, Anora dominated the Academy Awards, proving that its raw intensity and indie roots were no barrier to Hollywood’s top…

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Our Town

By Elisabeth LaMotte / January 2, 2025
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“Do any human beings every realize life while they live it?” I saw Thornton Wilder’s 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning play Our Town at some point during my childhood and remembered it vaguely. Mostly I remembered that the plot followed two young people in a small town falling in love and that the boy loved baseball.…

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What does setting boundaries actually look like?

By Elisabeth LaMotte / January 1, 2025

Happy New Year! Setting healthier boundaries is a common new year’s resolution so I thought I would share this clip from a conversation I had with Good Day DC host Jacqueline Matter. This particular suggested script focuses on the holidays and spending time together as a family, but it can be tweaked to a variety…

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Tom Lake

By Elisabeth LaMotte / December 28, 2024
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Therapists, especially relationally-oriented therapists, often attempt to help clients in therapy to improve their relationship choices. The pattern of fear of commitment is a widely acknowledged phenomenon in popular culture. Most of us understand fear of commitment as a conscious hesitation to take a healthy relationship to a higher level of commitment. But sometimes conflicts…

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What’s the difference between gentle parenting and gentle partnering?

By Elisabeth LaMotte / December 1, 2024
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Spencer Northey spoke with HuffPost about whether the popular approach of gentle parenting can also be an effect relational strategy in the romantic realm. Gentle parenting is a soft spoken supportive parenting strategy that many parents find enhances their connection with their children and improves listening skills for the family. Several experts made salient points…

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Tell Me Everything

By Elisabeth LaMotte / November 30, 2024
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If only we therapists could concoct a reliable strategy to help our clients prevent affairs. If only we could convincingly illuminate the heartbreak and damage and devastation in advance to help motivate adults who find themselves deep in the throes of an intense crush to carve out a different path. The trouble typically is that…

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How can we enjoy Thanksgiving without politics getting in the way?

By Elisabeth LaMotte / November 26, 2024
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As a therapist who works with folks from a variety of backgrounds and political perspectives, this is an important question that comes up quite a bit, especially as we head into the Thanksgiving Holiday. It was rewarding to speak with Axios reporter Maya Goldman about how important it is to not allow politics to drive…

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